With the changes to Capital Ships in the Citadel expansion, all fits in this thread should be considered outdated. This thread serves as a historical document of a fitting meta long gone. Refer to this thread for fittings after the Citadel expansion.

Notes:- The rigs displayed are specialized for triage use. You may wish to use Capacitor Control Circuit or Semiconductor Memory Cell rigs instead, especially if you cross-fit your carrier for other applications.- Your fitting in a capital ship is fluid and should change as the on-field situation develops. Especially the low slots can be adjusted on the fly to suit the requirements (more/less recharge, more/less resists).- Replace meta capital modules with T1 or vice versa to suit your budget. Upgrade modules to faction/deadspace as you consider appropriate.

Notes:- The rigs displayed are specialized for Pantheon use. You may wish to use Capacitor Control Circuit or Semiconductor Memory Cell rigs instead, especially if you cross-fit your carrier for other applications.- Your fitting in a capital ship is fluid and should change as the on-field situation develops. Especially the low slots can be adjusted on the fly to suit the requirements (more/less recharge, more/less resists).- Replace meta capital modules with T1 or vice versa to suit your budget. Upgrade modules to faction/deadspace as you consider appropriate.- Note that a pantheon core requires a certain critical mass (typically about 5-6 carriers) to be more effective than fitting for triage. Choose your fittings accordingly (and coordinate them with your fellow carriers).

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Notes:- Your fitting in a capital ship is fluid and should change as the on-field situation develops. Especially the mid slots can be adjusted on the fly to suit the requirements (more/less recharge, more/less resists). Capacitor Flux Coils are an option for cap recharge boosts that don't reduce your tank.- Replace meta capital modules with T1 or vice versa to suit your budget. Upgrade modules to faction/deadspace as you consider appropriate.- The Chimera is very hard to fit on CPU. Strongly consider investing in a Genolution implant set or, failing that, an EE-60x CPU implant. Consult your local fitting tool for details.- Adjust bling as appropriate to your budget. Keep in mind that many T2 modules use more CPU than the respective deadspace/faction variants. Test all adjustments in your friendly neighborhood fitting tool before purchase.

Capital Capacitor Control Circuit ICapital Capacitor Control Circuit ICapital Capacitor Control Circuit I

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Notes:Notes:- Your fitting in a capital ship is fluid and should change as the on-field situation develops. Especially the mid slots can be adjusted on the fly to suit the requirements (more/less recharge, more/less resists).- Note that a pantheon core requires a certain critical mass (typically about 5-6 carriers) to be more effective than fitting for triage. Choose your fittings accordingly (and coordinate them with your fellow carriers).

My fitting-fu isn't great, if anyone can provide better fits, by all means. These should be a good guide though.

Keep in mind you also need the spare modules to refit as mentioned in the other thread on Carrier Strategies. Please also remember Drones. The original post is long enough without having drones added too.

I would like to suggest this Chimera fit which finally convinced me that the Chimera is superior to the Archon. Requires CA-1 and CA-2 which can be fixed by using more meta capital mods but a Chimera pilot should have them anyways.The fit scales well with more bling like better Invuls and T2 rigs.

Unless im fitting wrong you do need to meta out some capital modules to fit the resist modules or atleast do a full fit of resists. I am no expert on capital tanking but I figure I would throw some numbers in there. The above fits are without drugs.

Pulsars will make it even more fun! Lets have some fun with a c5 pulsar. Assume standard mindflood also.Zun's Fit: If the chimera is neuted by 4 geddons with the last one using 6 neuts the carrier is cap stable at 18.73% with its self rep runnning.If you aren't being neuted, you can run your self rep and 2 meta0 remote reps constantly and still be 44.97% cap stable.

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Resist (active): The chimera has cap for over a hour with your self rep running constantly.

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Resist (passive): 31.87% cap stable with self rep running

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I forgot links. C5 Pulsar, Vulture Links (i think cap is the same so this is purely a super tank effect)Zun's Fit:

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Resist (active):

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Resist (passive):

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Of course if you aren't facing neut pressure you can always pop a blue pill if you are taking heavy damage but I won't put those up.

Let me know if you want EFT links for these.

Debling where you want. The non-em deadspace modules are fairly cheap so it is fairly easy to get those.

I would assume not. You fit DDA's and other sort of drone modules on ratting carriers and slowcat fleets and you wouldn't fit those modules on triage carriers. This is the same before and after the patch. I haven't had to use my fighters yet aside from some silly stuff that I did.

Zun Far wrote:can't use drones in triage. we won't realistically use anything other than triage.

So... Hypothetically... How many carrier pilots would we need to assemble a sort of 'pantheon' group?I've noticed a fight or two I've been in where uni caps were involved that get dropped by more dreads than a triage tank can handle. Some quick eft warrioring (I can see your eyes rolling already) says that if you had 3 archons rr/et'ing each other you might surpass the tanking capabilities of a triage module. This would then scale well with increasing number of carriers.

From randomly watching a youtube video I noticed something interesting from Snuff Box. I take it it is their take on pantheon concept (I believe they call it zantheon). Some killboard trawling shows that most of snuff's carrier losses are triage fit, but every so often they lose one that looks like this:https://zkillboard.com/kill/35410958/orhttps://zkillboard.com/kill/27924130/So rather than have pantheon carriers essentially fit like a guardian, they have the rr bonused nids repping and the et bonused archons et'ing to keep them stable.I dunno, maybe this is old news to you guys, but it got me excited

I personally wouldn't do pantheon/slowcat/mera with less then 4-5 carriers. It also depends on where you are, who you are against. In k-space people can escalate a lot harder and faster so your pantheon fleet will quickly turn to mush against a group of supers/dreads depending on what intel got out and who it got out too.

In w-space a group of 4-5 archons/chimeras will be extremely hard to kill, even harder if it is in your own home.

Lets say for the sake of the argument you have 5 chimeras using garde 2's with 10 drones each and 3 DDA's. Yes you will probably use archons but i had chimera's preset in pyfa and the damage bonus is only on the thanny. With 10 garde II's you get about 940 dps with 3 DDA's. That is a lot of dps but you are dedicating probably a 2bil hull to that and if you are running a pantheon you will have about 4-5 if you are doing minimum.

Lets say you do the spider fit for the archon above. You get about 600 dps with 10 garde II's. With 4 other spider archon's repping you, your tank is about 18815 HP/s. This is with damnation and sleipnir links. (every link in the game with mindlinks)

So in total you are looking at about 3000 dps total with the 5 archons, total rep to 1 archon is about 19000 HP/s, and you have about +1660 GJ/s cap coming in and 582 GJ/s going out if you are running every module. Full heat you get about 23000 HP/s

A triage with full links, the fit posted in the OP, tanks about 12700 HP/s. If you heat you get 16444 HP/s.

Yes a pantheon will tank more and give you some damage but it instantly paints a massive: "drop on my PL" effect on you. A single carrier might go unnoticed long enough in k-space to make it out alive before any counter drop might occur.

Hopefully im not spewing crap out that is wrong or contains bad information.

edit: that first lossmail is him probably trying to gtfo jump with full stabs or warp away.

Everything you said sounds accurate and sensible, certainly a small ish group of carriers would attract alot of attention.

Regarding the lossmail, yes, he was in the process or refitting stabs to get out (saw this work flawlessly in the video I mentioned, it was a thing of beauty; 5 or 6 carriers just refitting stabs and moonwalking out when the supers got dropped). But I think the 'functional' version of the fits look a bit more like:

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As you can see, a much more potent repping unit than the standard spider fits. One of these nids would rep the archon fit for 23000ehp/s, or one of the nidhoggur fits for 18000ehp/s(16k hp/s if you have the sig amp instead of the second eanm (the reason that is there is because you can see one of the intel channels the pilot is using in the video and it says(paraphrasing) "nid pilots, replace your sig amp with an eanm if the dps is too high")).2 et archons could sustain 3 nids.

I don't know how effective they would be as a dps unit, but they can all use a flight of fighters against dreads and what not.With the resebos, i think they could also be a valid sub cap repper, as long as the subcaps featured stiff-ish tanks to give the nids time to lock (lock time on a BC with 3 resebos is ~4 seconds)

Also the Triage Chimera fits are looking pretty dated, they were originally designed for w-space fights but nowadays you'd be expected to use A or B type Pith Invulns and either T2 CCC's or Semi's for Rigs. Also, Cap Power Relays, check out the 'Motte' Capacitor Power Relay I to save CPU and to reduce Shield Boost penalty.